> -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Chris Cox > Sent: Friday, January 15, 2010 10:24 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Used MP3000 > > On Mon, 2010-01-11 at 13:00 -0500, Hall, Kenneth J wrote: > > I'd rather take a 4381 cabinet, gut it, and put a very > small PC inside running Hercules. Dummy up the control panel > and 3279 console terminal, and use the empty space for storage. > > > > If only IBM would allow ISV's to put something real on Hercules. > It's like IBM doesn't want anyone to learn stuff anymore... not > that I mind Linux of course.
I think the z people are jealous of the i people. The i system is totally closed up. You don't have any idea how the OS works. 99% of it is "Licensed Internal Code". From what I've read in some books on it, by the original architect, this LIC is written in C++ and executes on the Power CPU (the i hardware is basically the same as the p, with some modifications and the LIC installed in it). IBM totally rules on that box. It would be like the z only being able to run user code written in COBOL. -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * (817)-961-6183 cell [email protected] * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
